[Distutils] GSoC 2017 - Working on pip

[Matthias Bussonnier]

Hi all,

Assuming that all the requirements are wheels and coming from PyPI.
Installed using a recent pip.

How often do you think the resolution will be the same for all
clients, and mostly be "pull everything from latest" ?

If so, would it make sense to pre-compute thing on PyPI/warehouse at
package publication time, and provide a resolution "hint" as an API
endpoint ? If this "hint" is correct, it should avoid clientside work
most of time. And the resolution can probably be efficiently updated
as you only have to re-solve by looking as the dependees of previous
version.

-- 
M


On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> On Feb 10, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Sebastien Awwad <sebastienawwad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> If dependencies were knowable in static metadata, there would be a decent
> case for SAT solving. I'll try to get back to a write-up after the current
> rush on my main project subsides.
>
>
>
> The differences between backtracking and SAT solvers and such is perhaps a
> bit of of my depth, but just FWIW when installing from Wheel it’s basically
> just waiting on a new API to get this information in a static form.
> Installing from sdist still has the problem (and likely will forever) but I
> think it’s not *unreasonable* to say that using wheels is what you need to
> do to get fast dep solving and if people aren’t providing wheels it will be
> slow(er?).
>
> —
> Donald Stufft
>
>
>
>
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